Example sentences of "the [noun] [v-ing] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly the grey horse was lame no more , but picked up his heels and leaped ahead with stretched neck and lunging shoulders , the prince lying forward over his neck and thrusting with him , as though he and his beast were one flesh . |
| 2 | What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those . |
| 3 | Place your hands gently over the eyes , the heels of your hands creating the darkness , with the fingers extending down over the temples . |
| 4 | She sat down and leaned back against the rock looking out over the sweep of moorland . |
| 5 | They looked large against the light pouring down over the flat land . |
| 6 | But , quite suddenly , she liked the feeling of danger , the small tingle that ran through her nerve-ends , the goosepimples dancing lightly over her skin . |
| 7 | This time it was held in St Margaret 's Hope School , the newly built primary school in a commanding position on a hill above the village looking out over the sea . |
| 8 | I could feel the redness spreading all over my face , down my neck , covering me . |
| 9 | Look at the implications looking back over it when when Fire and Public Protection had produced their report , but certainly the things are and it 's quite clear that we all know this case in my particular the river has been constricted by some thoroughly bad planning decisions and development control districts and they 're paying them that the owners are paying the penalty for that erm reducing the ditches and er building over them and okay we 've got problems erm so er there are structure plan implications erm which I do n't I think we should miss and if we say that really building on a is a principle well then we should try it right into the structure plan or looking at local plans for approval that we actually look at this a little bit more carefully . |
| 10 | And she felt , though comfortable in bed , as if she were standing with the rain sluicing all over her , streaming soothing over her breasts and down her thighs , warm and comforting and she hoped that he was not in difficulties on the road and that he was thinking about the rain . |
| 11 | So savour it while it is still new , because the developers have had the conservationists looking keenly over their shoulders during the building work , and everything has been done in the best possible taste . |
| 12 | The case burst open , the contents flying all over the place , and with a cry of astonishment the man fell , his face bleeding . |
| 13 | Some of its fluid cinematic effects are highly successful , others are distractingly off-key : a non-Shavian sequence in which Eliza and Freddy Eynsford-Hill spend the night scurrying all over London , for instance , and a display of flashes and bangs and madly revolving loudspeakers as Eliza starts wrecking Higgins 's language laboratory . |
| 14 | But she fears the embers ' flicker and the night closing in over chill ash . |
| 15 | We presumed this to be a regular ford and drove across with the water slopping in over the floor of the Land rover , but we eventually made it up on to the high inland plateau . |
| 16 | Leonard stayed like Breavman at the International Student 's House , from whose lofty heights he could see across New York ‘ relieved that it was n't his city , ’ in the day wandering all over New York ‘ to stare and taste at will . ’ |
| 17 | FitzAlan hurled himself forward in a low tackle , the pike whistling harmlessly over him . |
| 18 | I 'll do it for nothing — just my food and a bed in the attic looking out over the chimney-pots . |
| 19 | Looking down the tower , she could see , twenty feet below her , the church roof and the back of the necks of the gargoyles roaring noiselessly over the marsh . |
| 20 | The girl pulled on her wrap and moved to the door looking back over her shoulder as she went and Paula was aware of the hostility in her gaze . |
| 21 | They had to get old Mr Letham in his green coat and brass buttons to struggle up and get the flag of clothes down , but up there , the last name carved in the sandstone right up there on the corner looking down over Glasgow , was in 1910 . |
| 22 | Her first thought , she realised , was that she hated the idea of the police trampling all over this heaven on earth . |
| 23 | SUMMERCHILD : A feeling of — I don t know — looking down and seeing the world stretching away over the horizon . |
| 24 | Entranced by the quiet calm , Polly stood in the cockpit gazing out over the stern . |
| 25 | Duncan sat on the terrace of the hotel looking out over Lac Leman . |
| 26 | Sometimes a single boulder bounds and clatters down the scree pile , echoing loudly , sometimes a larger mass breaks away , sometimes the scree itself shifts and readjusts itself in a prolonged rattling clatter — a noise rather like the sea swashing back over pebbles . |
| 27 | Well I 've seen er the it 's receiving er message and suddenly the message cutting out the sea going right over the aerial . |
| 28 | I yelled at the top of my voice and Jean got such a fright she sent the Cortina swerving all over the road . |
| 29 | Twelve million years ago the rhinoceros ' ancestors roamed the earth wandering freely over much of Africa and Europe . |
| 30 | I found him sitting on the bench to the side of the house gazing out over Backyards . |